Think what you like of the obscene sums of money sloshing between footballing
bigwigs, which raise any number of worrying theories. At Fifa headquarters
yesterday, officials reacted with an underwhelmed shrug.

More than $1 million (about £602,000) is said to have been passed from one
former Fifa executive to another, for reasons that remain troublingly
unexplained, yet it takes far more than that to disturb the see-no-evil
tranquillity of Zurich.

Sadly, it will also take much more compelling evidence than that unearthed
this week for Fifa even to begin to question the staging of the 2022 World
Cup finals in Qatar.